DEPUTY Senate President, Chief Ike Ekweremadu, has said the move by some members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Enugu State to change the existing structure of the party by pushing for the dissolution of the Vita Abba-led executive committee will never succeed.

Justice F. A. Olubanjo of the Federal High Court, Owerri, has reserved ruling for November 5, 2010, in the application (FHC/OW/CS/43/08) filed by National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, for stay of execution of the judgment debt entered in favour of Reagan Remedies Nigeria Limited.

THE Progressive Peoples Alliance, PPA, in Ebonyi State has accused Governor Martin Elechi of disregard to the rule of law mantra of the federal government, alleging that apart from holding council polls in defiance of subsisting court order, the governor insists on swearing in the council chairmen today.

About one million residents at Ugwuagba and Awada Obosi in Idemlli North local government of Anambra State may be rendered homeless following a plan by the Anambra state Urban Development Board, ASUDEB to demolish their structures.

From the local money mar-ket, to importers and other heavy users of foreign exchange, and now to the international investment community, the fever generated by the persistent depletion continues to spread.

The declining oil price may threaten the nation’s foreign exchange earnings and put Nigeria in a state of bankruptcy, says Mr. Opeyemi Agbaje, Managing Director/CEO, Resources and Trust Company Limited.

The President of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, (LCCI) Otunba Femi Deru, on Thursday, lamented over the pension system in the country, saying that pensioners have suffered immensely because of the poor administration of the pension system.

The Nigerian Federal Government suffered and estimated $20 billion in Oil production and export shortfall losses in 2008 due to militant violence in the Niger Delta region.

Prof. Akin Oyebode, a lecturer of International Law and Jurisprudence at the University of Lagos, is a renowned academic and former Vice Chancellor of the University of Ado-Ekiti. He was the legal adviser to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) between 1991 to 1992 when Professor Attahiru Jega, presently Chairman of the Independent National Commission (INEC), led the union.
In this interview with Vanguard’s Hugo Odiogor, Oyebode spoke on the character of the INEC chairman, the enormity of the challenges facing him and the infantile state of the Nigerian nation after 50 years of self rule.

I ke Ibe is a distinguished lawyer and former Speaker of Imo State House of Assembly in 1993. He is also form trade representative of Imo State to the United States. As the electorate in Imo state warm up to participate actively in the 2011 governorship election Ibe who is known for touching base with the poor, the physically challenged and the rural poor in this interview unveiled his plans for the people of Imo State. The governorship hopeful says would ensure better platform for future leaders in the state if voted int power.

If zoning to marginalised sections of the polity and voting power were to be the only determinants of the 2011 presidential polls, Mrs. Sarah Jubril says she would be the biggest beneficiary. According to her, women had been grossly marginalised in the power-sharing arrangement, with no woman occupying the nation’s highest office since independence in 1960.

THEY say he who wears the shoe knows where it pinches him. The Governor Theodore Orji-led administration had after a careful study of the prevailing situation come out with the verdict that it was politically-motivated.

THE unfolding events in the country’s political landscape, most especially the zoning propaganda are daily becoming interesting. No doubt this is a headache of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, because both the proponents and those that are against zoning are all members of the party.

AS part of international efforts to seek solutions to Lake Chad whose water has receded about 90 percent, President Goodluck Jonathan is among six African Heads of State and Government currently in N’djamena, the capital of Chad Republic .

18 year old American teenager, Alexandria Mills, is now Miss World 2010., she is  from Louisville, Kentucky. She won the international pageant Saturday in Sanya, China. “It’s a cliche but this really is a dream come true,” she said, crying. “I can’t believe it’s happening ot me. My time has come. I’m loving it!” Mills […]